It is hard to guess what a Lewis’s tuco-tuco weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lewis’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys lewisi) on average weights 117 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Lewis’s tuco-tuco is from the family Ctenomyidae (genus: Ctenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.7 cm (0′ 7″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Lewis’s tuco-tuco (Ctenomys lewisi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae.It is endemic to Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Lewis’s tuco-tuco
We found other animals of the Ctenomyidae family:
- Furtive tuco-tuco with a weight of 150 grams
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco with a weight of 212 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco with a weight of 141 grams
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a weight of 92 grams
- Robust tuco-tuco with a weight of 249 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco with a weight of 230 grams
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a weight of 166 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco with a weight of 210 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco with a weight of 179 grams
- Strong tuco-tuco with a weight of 233 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lewis’s tuco-tuco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenomys lewisi:
- Pará spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Highland streaked tenrec bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Indian gerbil bringing 138 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Northern pika bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Madagascan flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Giant roundleaf bat bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Brants’s whistling rat bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 95 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lewis’s tuco-tuco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lewis’s tuco-tuco:
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan field rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser hamster-rat with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stephen’s woodrat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)